A deep intronic CLRN1 (USH3A) founder mutation generates an aberrant exon and underlies severe Usher syndrome on the Arabian Peninsula

Abstract Deafblindness is mostly due to Usher syndrome caused by recessive mutations in the known genes. Mutation-negative patients therefore either have distinct diseases, mutations in yet unknown Usher genes or in extra-exonic parts of the known genes – to date a largely unexplored possibility. In...

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Main Authors: Arif O. Khan, Elvir Becirovic, Christian Betz, Christine Neuhaus, Janine Altmüller, Lisa Maria Riedmayr, Susanne Motameny, Gudrun Nürnberg, Peter Nürnberg, Hanno J. Bolz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01577-8